Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1919, Page 3

TREATY DISPUTE FRIDAY, JULY 1 919 FLOOD OF HOMESTEADENTRIESIN. STATE LEAVES 24 MLLION ACRES OF GOVERNMENT LAND. I$ REPORT State Commissioner Seeks to Clear up Confusion Con- ‘ nected with Wide Variety of Homestead Laws in Statement on Public Lands. CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 11.—(Special)—In spite of the rapid settlement of the past few years, there are still in Wy- oming more than twenty-five million acres of free government land. The exact number is 25,484,194. For the most part this is grazing land, and millions of acres of it have been desig- nated under the stockraising homestead law. It lies in every county in the state. Occasional tracts | - may be farmed with profit, and these | visions in each, that the matter is lalso are to be found in every county. | often confusing to the mind of the There are so many different kinds ordinary mortal. State Commissioner of homestead laws, and so many pro-| Charles Hill, whose business it ae = Z| is to see to it that a portion of the ; { SOCIETY | millions are settled up, is making an effort to clear up some of these con- pai ieee Te AE td Pasion, K. C.*Circle Meets | “A party qualified to mz with Mrs. Bailey. |under the homestead laws, The K. C, Circle of the Methodist | “must be a citizen of the Aid society met Wedne y afternoon|S at the home of Mrs. uiley. Mrs.jto become such, must be over the S. A. Walker was assistant hostess. A| age of twenty-one years, or the head program of readings and music was|of a fami given. Mrs. L. L. Gantz presided and| army or na there were 14 club members present It was decided to give an ice cream social on the church lawn Tuesday night. y United | “Rights under the homestead law pertain to women as well as to men with the exception that a married wo. = {man is not qualified to enter unle = | khe the head of a family or had | {made an application to enter prior| to her marriage. A man and woman| who have made homestead entries | and have lived upon the same for a} period of more than one year, may marry, and thereafter elect w entry to live upon during the and residence thereafter upon either of the entries constitutes complianc with the residence requirements to both homesteads. A deserted wif. or one whose husband is in the pen- itentiary and who has been aband-| oned for a period of more than one year may live upon the homestead made by the husband and may submit = proof and secure patent in her own * PARIS.—(Correspondence of the|name, being allowed credit for all Associated Press.) — Holland has{residence and improvements mad scored in the first heat of the diplo-| herself or her husband. A wid matic tourney with her neighbor Bel-| otherwise qualified may make ent gium over the clauses of the treaties | notwithstanding the fact that she m of 1839, which have aroused a good| at the time be claiming the unperfect- deal of feeling on both sides of the| ed entry of her deceased husband. Belgo-Dutch border. “Under the 160-acre law the en- It was these 80 years old treaties] tryman is required to live upon and that gave Holland the Limburg| cultivate the land for a period of “peninsula”—the narrow elongated|three years. He has five years in| strip of land popularly known as the| which to comply with the law and “Dutch appendix,” by crossing which,|{o offer proof. He must begin his WITH BELGIANS Territorial Claims of Belgians Arouse Indignation and Hol- land Is Sustained by the Great Powers the Germans in their retreat last fall] residence within six months from saved themselves a detour, of some|date of filing his application and) 40 miles and possible capture by the] thereafter must reside. .upon. the! Allied armies. land for“n™ period of seven months The Belgians dug up ancient rec-|in each yedr. He is permitted to} ords showing that several towns and| absent himself from the land dur- | villages situated in Dutch Limburg|ing five months in each year, end} had, in the thirties of last century, pe- | may divide this period into two leay es | titioned the first king of the Belgians | of ence. He must notify the land | to be joined to his new kingdom. Al- | office at the time he leaves the claim though the Dutch Limburgers of the] and upon his return thereto. Culti- present day are said to have no such] vation is required for a period of at desires, an influential section of Bel | least two years. During the second gian politicians clamored for the an. | year not less than one-sixteenth of nexation of Limburg to Belgium. the ground entered must be actually Also, to safeguard the future posi-] cultivated, and during the third yeer tion of Antwerp, the Belgian annexa-] and until final proof cultivation of tionists claimed the territory knowr | 10t less than one-third must be had. as Dutch Flanders, situated on the | The requirements as to residence and southern bank of the Scheldt estuary,| cultivation are the same under the which the treaties named had als 60-acre law as the )-acre la given to Holland. “Under the 640-acre law no spe Those territorial claims aroused ¢{ ic amount of cultivation is required, | storm of patriotic indignation in Hol | but it must be shown on submission land. Queen Wilhelmina visited the ] of proof that the entryman has made | disputed parts of her dominions, anc | permanent improvement: upon the} there was a good deal of flag waving land, tending to increase its value for and shouting about ‘dying in the last | stockraising purposes, to the value of | ditch” before giving up national ter-| not less than $1.25 per acre, half of | ritory. The situation was becoming!/ which must be placed within three unpleasant. Coolheaded elements in| years after entry, and it must also Holland realized that an estrangement be shown that the land has been used from the Belgian sister nation would | for three years for stockraising end be fraught with disastrous conse- for the production of forage crops quences. When a conference was Under the 640-acre law the provis- called by the five great powers to re- ions with respect to residence and consider the treaties of 1839, a dele- (the construction of a habitable house | hus tates or have declared his intention | 2" or have served in the e the fatal Miller, one ad Around the courthouse the bride as described as leap We looki coup! Jue marr Ye place « dan popular capacit efforts. Miss Mack, | Mil s from Fond-du-La while Mr. Miller is from Indiar Ind. 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